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Li Jing got up and left the table, and Zhang Rui hurriedly called a young servant to follow out. As soon as he left the hall, as soon as the night breeze in April blew, the whole person was immediately relieved from the feeling of drunkenness and slight smoke, and his expression was much more relaxed. I just said that I wanted to change clothes, but it was just an excuse. It's really Li Jing who is a little overwhelmed, so he took the opportunity to come out and take a breath. At this time, it was the fifteenth, the weather was fine, and a bright moon was in the middle of the night sky, and it was extremely bright.

waved off the little guy, Li Jing simply strolled in the courtyard to sober himself up. Anyway, the purpose of coming to the banquet tonight has been achieved, so I am not in a hurry to go back. This time, starting from the beginning of Chang'an, the Zhenguo army marched extremely fast.

After the plan for the encirclement and suppression of the twelve towns was decided, soldiers and horses from all walks of life also left Beijing one after another. First of all, Zheng Congyan, Yu Xuan, Tuoba Sigong, and Hao Lianduo were the first to leave Beijing. Immediately afterwards, Li Guochang and Yang Fuguang led 3,000 Shatuo troops, as well as 3,000 Shence troops, and then set off for Xichuan. The next day, Xin Yan also set off with Mi Haiwan and other three tribes to return to the Datong army, and when Xin Yan set off, he also brought 3,000 Shence troops, including two infantry and 1,000 cavalry. These 3,000 soldiers and horses were completely won by Li Jing for him in front of the emperor, and he was the new deputy ambassador of the Datong Army. For this reason, Li Jing invited 3,000 soldiers and horses from Li Yi. In this way, the Datong army also has 10,000 soldiers and horses.

Xin Yan got 3,000 Shence troops, and when Chen Jingxuan went to Youzhou to take office the next day, he also asked Tian Lingzi for 3,000 forbidden troops, and all the 3,000 he asked for were cavalry.

Subsequently, Liu Ye, the envoy of Huainan Jiedu, Mu Renyu, the envoy of Xuanwu Jiedu, and Du Xian, the defense envoy of Dongdu Jidu, also left Beijing and returned to the towns one after another. When they leave. Li Yi was actually very surprised, and transferred 1,000 forbidden soldiers to each of the three of them, and returned to the town with them.

Subsequently, Zhaoyi Jiedu made Du Xianquan return to the town. Li Yi even drew 5,000 forbidden troops to him because of the previous 8,000 soldiers and horses of the Zhaoyi Army. Li Zhuo, the envoy of the Heyang Jiedu, the Li Chong of the Yicheng Jiedu, and the Cui Anqian of the Zhongwu Jiedu, also each obtained 3,000 forbidden troops.

In addition to the four armies that were not in Beijing, the Pinglu Army, the Reform Army, the Tianping Army and the Taining Army, among the twelve towns that wanted to suppress the bandits this time, among the eight towns in the capital, only the emperor of the Zhenguo Army did not pull out the forbidden army to him. And in the four towns that were not in Beijing, Song Wei of the Pinglu Army also got 3,000 infantry and 500 cavalry.

This transfer surprised Li Jing for a long time. In the end, Li Zhen pointed out the mystery inside.

In fact, this is just a continuation of the power struggle of those leading eunuchs within the Shence Army. Last time, Tian Lingzi took advantage of the strength of the soldiers and horses of the three tribes of the Eight Towns in Beijing and used the support of the emperor to carry out a major purge of the Shence army in Gyeonggi. The current follow-up is only the result of the expulsion of the generals of the Shence Army of the Yang Fugong faction and the Ximen Sigong faction who failed in the last struggle. Even Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong have now been temporarily squeezed out of the capital, and these followers of theirs will naturally not have good results.

In the name of replenishing soldiers and horses to various towns and strengthening the strength of the bandits, Tian Lingzi openly threw the losers of the struggle out of the capital. It is estimated that in addition to the 3,000 cavalry he gave to Chen Jingxuan, the remaining 26,500 gods were transferred out, and it is estimated that they are all aliens.

Li Jing also had to admire Tian Lingzi's successive moves. is indeed steady and ruthless, so fast that Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong have no time to react.

Originally, it had to be drawn by the forbidden army to fight for thieves, and the soldiers and horses in each town added up to tens of thousands. However, as a result, everyone did not go directly to Songzhou, but went their separate ways as soon as they got out of Tongguan, and they all returned to their respective feudal towns first. After getting the most Lu, even Mu Renyu, the Xuanwu Jiedu who ruled Songzhou, returned to Bianzhou first, and only Li Jing couldn't get around, and the last army alone went to the city of Songzhou.

Originally, Li Jing was also going to bypass Songzhou and go back to Dengzhou first. But Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao didn't give him Li Jing's face, he had just arrived in Songzhou, and Cao and Pu Erzhou in front of him were already full of grass thieves, blocking the way ahead.

Now the grass thieves have a great momentum, and there are a large number of grass thieves in Kyushu in Song, Cao, Hua, Pu, Yan, Yi, Ji, Yun, and Qi. The official army is now guarding the line of Xu, Song, Bian, Zheng, and Luoyang on the first line of Bianqu, and the west of Bianqu is fine, but the east is almost erosive. The Tianping Army and the Taining Army have been beaten and retreated to their respective tooth cities and dare not go out, and there are only a dozen or so cities left in Kyushu that are still leaning on the city to hold on, but the township has almost completely fallen. The grass thief locusts swept through the border like a crossing, and their momentum expanded rapidly like a snowball, and now they are known as 100,000 people. At the same time, after these grass thieves crossed the border, they robbed almost everything, so that the public order in various places was completely disorderly, and more displaced people began to form groups of people, gather crowds to loot, or enter the mountains to steal, take the island as thieves, and even began to burn and loot, and the entire Henan Province was already in a chaotic war.

This reminded Li Jing of a sentence, a spark can start a prairie fire!

Now the best opportunity to exterminate the grass thieves has been missed, and these grass thieves are now merged with the Qingzhou soldiers, with both weapons, people, and professional soldiers and generals, and they have completely become bigger. Even Li Jing didn't dare to say that he could exterminate these grass thieves by himself. Historically, Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao did not have the support of local warlords like Wang Jingguan at the beginning, let alone the victory of the Tianping and Taining armies at the beginning.

Li Jing now has to stop in Songzhou, in addition to being blocked in the front, there is another important reason, that is, his food is not enough. An army of 20,000 people consumes not a fraction of the food consumed every day. When starting from Chang'an, the imperial court did not give much grain to Li Jing. Originally, he said that there would be supplies later, but after he sent troops, Yang Fugong, the military envoy, did not leave Beijing for a long time, so naturally there was no food supply. If Li Jing hadn't paid for himself along the way to buy food in various cities in front of him, they wouldn't even be able to reach Songzhou.

Now that the nine states in front of us are full of grass thieves, naturally there is no way to talk about supplies on the road, and Li Jing is also forced to stay.

It seems that no matter how you look at it, if you want to go back to Dengzhou, you have to fight with the grass thieves. Fortunately, Songzhou is a big city and can be supplied. However, in the face of these grass thieves, Li Jing was still a little helpless. The grass thief claimed to be 100,000, and his rebel army was 30,000 or 40,000. And there are not many elites among them, but because of this, Li Jing feels that this battle is not easy to fight. Because the grass thief is simply playing the tactic of crowds, the last thing the grass thief lacks now is people.

And for Li Jing, every soldier of the Zhenguo Army is quite precious, fighting with grass thieves, a hundred deaths, the grass thieves are not moved, and the Zhenguo Army dies one, Li Jing will be heartbroken. After thinking about it, Liu Xun gave him an idea, that is, to recruit a temporary auxiliary army in Songzhou and issue weapons. When fighting with the grass thieves, let the auxiliary army go up first, as long as the first offensive of these rabble armies is resisted, then the Zhenguo army will definitely be able to defeat the enemy army and greatly avoid the damage of our army.

Although this proposal was a bit cruel, since Li Jing didn't want his soldiers to die, this was an excellent solution. After hesitating for a long time, Li Jing decided to recruit 5,000 auxiliary soldiers.

Now that troops are already being recruited outside the city, and the weapons and armor of these 5,000 soldiers have just been completed, Li Jing is also in a much more relaxed mood. With the food, the cannon fodder for the lead, and the weapons and armor for the cannon fodder, the next thing will be easy to do.

Li Jing was thinking about his thoughts while turning around casually, but he got lost in Zhang's Mansion after a while. Walking and walking, I actually arrived in the back garden, at this time it is nearly May, the roses in the garden are in full bloom, and it is very beautiful under the moon. At this moment, his eyes suddenly lit up, and a young woman in white entered his field of vision. From a distance, the whole person looks as beautiful and charming as the rose under the moon.

His eyes couldn't help but look at her, and he couldn't help but think in his heart, he had seen countless beauties, but it was the first time he had seen such a thing in front of him. The woman looked to be no more than thirteen or fourteen years old, neither coquettish nor plump, but somewhat like a rose that had not yet fully bloomed. At the age of thirteen or fourteen, she is still just a young age, but on her body, the unique youth of this age looks so charming.

She lowered her shoulders, half-bent over, and looked down at the flowers, which was so cute.

A pink face with a little baby fat, thin eyebrows, like a crooked crescent moon, obliquely inserted until the edge of the flying sideburns clouds, looking at the blown face, Li Jing, who was a little drunk, really wanted to come forward and knead a few handfuls.

Li Jing stood under the grapevine trellis, half with wine, looking at this lovely girl, and couldn't help but wander.

The girl in front of the rose flower finally discovered Li Jing at this time. When Li Jing broke into the garden, she saw it, but she didn't make a sound, because at first glance she recognized this young and heroic man, who she had peeked in and out of the living room with her personal girl Green Sprout. When the girl was thirteen or fourteen years old, she was in the spring season, and when she heard Yahuan say that Li Jing, the marshal of the Zhenguo Army, came to the house for a banquet, her heart couldn't help jumping.

Li Jing is young and brave, a famous young hero in the world, and soon after he was crowned, he was already a prince of the country wearing the handsome seal of the three towns, such a character has already been sung by the world, countless restaurants and tea shops are hooked, and there are heroic deeds about him everywhere, even Zhang Hui, who stayed in the boudoir, has heard it countless times. Like many other girls, Li Jing's heroic image has long become the lover of a girl's dreams after being added by countless people.

Peeking outside the living room for a while, she was so excited that she came to the back garden to enjoy the flowers, but she didn't expect to meet here. She tried her best to suppress her excitement, only pretending not to know about Li Jing's appearance, but occasionally she couldn't help but glance at it from the corner of her eye, but she was also affectionate and shy! (To be continued......)